Apple delays iLife launch by a week

“Apple Computer has delayed by a week the scheduled launch for iLife, its collection of programs for playing music, making movies, editing photos and creating custom DVDs. The software suite was set to go on sale for US$49 on Saturday, with free downloads of two of its components–iMovie 3 and iPhoto 2–to be made available free from Apple’s site. Apple says iLife will ship Jan. 31 and the downloads will be made available that day as well. ‘We will be shipping our iLife retail package and making iPhoto2 and iMovie3 available for download on our Web site by Jan. 31, a week later than we originally announced,’ the company wrote in an e-mail. Apple did not provide a reason for the delay,” reports CNET Asia here.